Apartment Stories: City and Home in 19th Century Paris and London

by Sharon Marcus

Book Overview

In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the urban and the domestic. Turning to an element of the cityscape that is thoroughly familiar yet frequently overlooked, Sharon Marcus argues that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520217268
• ISBN13: 9780520217263
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"